Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, melon stew. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Cool syrup and stir in lime juice, gingerroot, cumin, pepper, and salt to taste. Nigerian Egusi Stew (Melon Stew) Egusi stew is a local Nigerian name for edible melon. The stew is local to the Yoruba ethnic group of the country. For this stew, the melon seed is finely ground which gives this stew its unique taste and flavor.
Melon stew is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Melon stew is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have melon stew using 11 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Melon stew:
- Get 240 g ground melon (wild melon seeds or pumpkin seeds)
- Make ready 400 ml meat stock
- Make ready 680 g (about 5 medium tomatoes)
- Get 3 fresh chili pepper
- Get 4 tbs ground crayfish
- Take 10 g chicken bouillon
- Take 1/2 tsp salt
- Take Handful dried bitter leaves (or spinach finely chopped)
- Prepare 4 tbsp olive oil
- Make ready 500 ml water
- Get Millet flour or cornmeal (for serving)
Unlike Watermelon, Egusi melon has a bitter white flesh but the seeds are used for quite a number of recipes in Africa especially West African countries. Chinese, Soup, Vegetables Winter Melon Soup (Tong Kua Tong) is a soothing and nutritious soup with cooling properties. Perfect on a warm day but just as comforting on a cool day. When the weather turns cold, it is time to bring on the soups.
Instructions to make Melon stew:
- Pause the tomatoes and pepper in a blender until purée. Transfer to a pot on a stove top, cover and allow to cook until the water content is dried off.
- Heat up a pot, add oil,the cooked tomatoes and pepper mixture. Fry for about 5 minutes, add melon and continue frying for another 5 minutes, then add the crayfish and fry for 2 minutes.
- Add meat stock, water, chicken bouillon, 1/2 tsp salt, stir to combine and bring to a boil.
- Reduce heat to low and allow to simmer for 30minutes. Stir in dried bitter leaves (washed and cut into smaller sizes), cover and allow to simmer for additional 5 minutes. Serve with cornmeal or any choice of carb. Voila!
Perfect on a warm day but just as comforting on a cool day. When the weather turns cold, it is time to bring on the soups. The melon can be simmered till really soft or use in quick boiling soup where it still has some crunch. For quick boiling, slice the melon into thin slices instead of chunks. Paired with complementary Chinese herbs, it serves as anti-swelling tonics and summer heat relievers.
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